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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 262840, member: 23&quot;]That bezel is on a lot of Indian jewelry and it does look like real stones.&nbsp; As far as the open back, turquoise needs to &quot;breathe&quot;.&nbsp; I used to get pieces made by a friend who was a Seminole.&nbsp; He traveled to Arizona every year to buy rocks to cut into pieces for his jewelry. He usually cut a small open design in the back of solid backing. If the back wasn&#039;t open as much as this, he&#039;d put a piece of some kind of special paper between the turquoise and the silver that was supposed to keep moisture away from the stone and he told me not to wash my hands with my rings on.&nbsp; Maybe this was all hogwash, but that&#039;s what I was told.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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